Diálogos interdisciplinares para uma agenda socioambiental: breve inventário do debate sobre ciência, sociedade e natureza

O debate sobre ciencia, sociedade e natureza, na perspectiva da construcao de um novo conhecimento interdisciplinar, exige uma reflexao critica sobre os fundamentos da racionalidade cientifica moderna. Por outro lado, a critica que se faz ao conhecimento cientifico, coincide com a critica ao fracionamento que se faz entre sociedade e natureza, com todas as suas implicacoes socio-culturais e politicas. Razao instrumental e sistema de crencas andam juntos. Dai que uma critica profunda sobre a racionalidade e as praticas cientificas, no âmbito da relacao sociedade-natureza, deve buscar reaproximar os saberes disciplinares, principalmente os das ciencias da vida, da natureza e da sociedade. Esse dialogo entre saberes cientificos nao pode, entretanto, excluir as outras formas de conhecimento do mundo, da natureza e das sociedades. ABSTRACT The debate on science, nature and society, from the perspective of the construction of a new interdisciplinary knowledge, requires critical refelctions on the bases of modern scientific rationality. On the other hand, the critique of scientific knowledge that has been made coincides with the critique of the division between society and nature, with all of its socio-cultural and political implications. Instrumental reason and belief system develop together. Therefore, a deep critique of rationality and scientific practices, from the perspective of the societynature relationship, should seek to bring the knowledge that has been separated into different disciplines closer together again, especially with regard to the life sciences, that is, those of nature and society. This dialogue between fields of scientific knowledge should not, at the same time, exclude other forms of knowing the world, nature and society.